You probably know former Bengal Cris Collinsworth from his work as an analyst for Sunday Night Football, but Cris has also worked as an Olympic correspondent for NBC in during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and in the 2012 London Games.This year, the torch will be passed down in Rio to his son Jac, a Highlands High School product.Watch this story"To be honest, I had no idea that I wanted to do anything semi-related to this," he told WLWT News 5's Elise Jesse. "So I ended up in a class called Introduction to Filmmaking and I started doing the announcements (at Highlands), and it became something where we saw that we had the ability to give kids a break from class".A break from class helped Jac realize his passion for broadcasting, and a few years later the University of Notre Dame senior was packing his bags for an opportunity to work in Rio De Janeiro as NBC’s first social media correspondent.The 21-year old believes he can relate easily with younger athletes like 19-year old swimmer, Katie Ledecky and 16-year old Kanak Jha. He said he hopes to give viewers a behind the scenes look into the 2016 Games."It's really a kind of young man, young woman's game. So for me, I just want to go down there and make humans out of them and have fun light conversations and hopefully show a different side than they're already going to know," Collinsworth said.This isn't Collinsworth’s only job either. He's a sideline producer for NBC Sports, he's hosted ND Live. He also stays busy by co-hosting a weekly radio show and says the “grind” comes naturally to him,“At the end of it all, there is such a sense of satisfaction in the work you did that day that it's just all worth it for me," Collinsworth said. "You never know, this may be the last chance I ever have to go to an Olympic event. I just want to be as spongy as I can possibly be and soak everything in".The hard work won’t stop for Jac anytime soon. He flies back from Rio on Aug. 22 just in time to begin classes at Notre Dame the next day.

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You probably know former Bengal Cris Collinsworth from his work as an analyst for Sunday Night Football, but Cris has also worked as an Olympic correspondent for NBC in during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and in the 2012 London Games.

This year, the torch will be passed down in Rio to his son Jac, a Highlands High School product.

"To be honest, I had no idea that I wanted to do anything semi-related to this," he told WLWT News 5's Elise Jesse. "So I ended up in a class called Introduction to Filmmaking and I started doing the announcements (at Highlands), and it became something where we saw that we had the ability to give kids a break from class".

A break from class helped Jac realize his passion for broadcasting, and a few years later the University of Notre Dame senior was packing his bags for an opportunity to work in Rio De Janeiro as NBC’s first social media correspondent.

The 21-year old believes he can relate easily with younger athletes like 19-year old swimmer, Katie Ledecky and 16-year old Kanak Jha. He said he hopes to give viewers a behind the scenes look into the 2016 Games.

"It's really a kind of young man, young woman's game. So for me, I just want to go down there and make humans out of them and have fun light conversations and hopefully show a different side than they're already going to know," Collinsworth said.

This isn't Collinsworth’s only job either. He's a sideline producer for NBC Sports, he's hosted ND Live. He also stays busy by co-hosting a weekly radio show and says the “grind” comes naturally to him,

“At the end of it all, there is such a sense of satisfaction in the work you did that day that it's just all worth it for me," Collinsworth said. "You never know, this may be the last chance I ever have to go to an Olympic event. I just want to be as spongy as I can possibly be and soak everything in".

The hard work won’t stop for Jac anytime soon. He flies back from Rio on Aug. 22 just in time to begin classes at Notre Dame the next day.